DARE TO BIRD

I am co-leading a FREE talk and Q and A about winter birding “Feathers in the Frost” for the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) at 2:30pm on Nov 6th. It is an honour to be doing this for NCC and should be a lot of fun so hope you can join us! You can sign up for it HERE

Check out my new podcast episode with the “Let’s Take This Outside Podcast.” You can listen to it HERE . We talk about my book “Dare to Bird” and about grief and loss and how birding helps with that. You can also click the link below to listen. Also a good news story that featured my photo of the Northern Spotted Owl. You hardly here any good news stories about this species so nice to hear about this family in WA read the story  HERE Also 3 of my photos (Tundra Swan, Hooded Merganser and Bohemian Waxwing) are featured in this new book by Tom Myers for young birders. It’s the perfect gift for any teen or kid birder! Check it out HERE By the way I recently saw a Steller’s Eider in Port Hardy that was my 460th bird species for the province of BC and only the second time I’ve seen a Steller’s Eider ever. I placed a video of it below and a photo. Immature Male Steller's Eider in Port Hardy - Photo: Melissa Hafting Also the 2025 updated edition of my book “ Dare to Bird ” is out you can ...

We had a great Frontiers in Ornithology Youth Symposium in Seattle WA on Oct 4th! We had amazing youth attendees, and parents and amazing youth and adult speakers. Watching the youth ask questions and engage with the speakers and be so passionate about their future careers was very moving for me. Youth connected with like-minded youth from across North America and made friendships and shared in their passion. The speakers were so diverse that there was something for everyone from how to paint birds to ornithologic and scientific careers and careers in social justice and Indigenous rights and conservation. All of our speakers from Canada and the USA (except for Dennis Paulson who had to leave early :( ) are pictured in the photo below with board members and our amazing keynote Steve Hampton. It was really nice to meet and see Bird field guide book author Cameron Cox come out to volunteer and help us, when he had no children in the event. We had so much excess catered food that the exac...

I am leading a bird walk for the Stanley Park Ecology Society at 9:30 am on Oct 26th. You can sign up HERE Hope to see you there! This program is open to all ages!